The first new rule for the IDF should be disproportionality  

By Gregg Roman, jns

(August 10, 2021 / JNS) Since the dawn of time, the primary, and frequently only, goal in any war of conflict has been victory. The means to that end on the part of the ultimate victors has been almost entirely disproportionate.

Those with the latest expertise and technology—from the Roman ballista to the canons during the Battle of Crecy and the nuclear weapons that ended World War II in the Pacific—have invariably won the war they fought.

In the past, investing in the art of warfare was never thought to put an opponent at an unfair disadvantage. The rules of war are not akin to boxing’s Queensberry’s Rules, according to which “you must not fight simply to win.”
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August 12, 2021 | 11:54 am | 5 Comments »

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What’s Inside Sen. Sanders’ $3.5 Trillion Budget  

BY Joseph Lord, EPOCH TIMES

News Analysis 

On Aug. 11, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) publicly released the full text of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) $3.5 trillion budget proposal. A few hours later, the Senate narrowly confirmed the budget 50-49. Now, the budget must win approval from the House of Representatives after they return from their recess.

The outline is expected to be the first step in the Democrats’ ambitious plans for increased Federal spending on “human infrastructure,” including education, health care, and housing initiatives. However, the resolution does not include an increase to the debt ceiling, setting the stage for another political battle when Congress returns.

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August 12, 2021 | 1:48 am | Comments »

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The Reason Biden Is Moving Troops to Jordan  

T. Belman.  I have known for some time that there is a troop build up in Jordan.  Most of it is public knowledge.  It is less clear why the US is there or what they will do in the event the King falls.

JaFaJ Intelligence Solutions    August 10, 2021

Introduction
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1-On the 21st of March 2021, the Official Gazette of the Jordanian Hashemite Kingdom published the details of a military cooperation agreement between Jordan and the US. The agreement details extensive powers granted by Jordan to the US troops. Among those powers mentioned is freedom of operations within Jordan itself as well as immunity to all forms of responsibilities that may result from any military procedures.

2- In Jordan, it is well known that when a resolution, law or agreement is published in the Official Gazette, it is considered “A final, permanent act”, making it very hard to change or alter. The publishing of this agreement in the Jordanian Official Gazette, cements in stone the principals and language contained in the agreement, making it close to irrevocable.

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August 12, 2021 | 12:30 am | 9 Comments »

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$3.5 Trillion Budget Reconciliation Package Includes Mass Amnesty for Millions of Illegals  

T. Belman.  If anyone sees an article that explains how the Bill supports more than infrastructure, please share. I want to highlight how it supports the Democratic agenda.

By Eric Lendrum, AM GREATNESS

The Democrats’ massive budget reconciliation package, finally revealed on Monday, includes a plan to give mass amnesty to “millions of” illegal aliens in the United States, according to The Hill.

The $3.5 trillion spending package will provide $107 billion for the Senate Judiciary Committee to determine the fastest route for providing blanket amnesty, with a deadline of September 15th to come up with such a solution. The bill itself does not single out any particular group of illegals or preferred methods, but instead orders the committee to provide “lawful permanent status for qualified immigrants,” as well as handing out green cards to “millions of immigrant workers and families.”

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August 11, 2021 | 2:55 pm | 1 Comment »

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Shaked shines some light on deliberations on whether to lockdown  

Persistent morbidity rate means Israel staring at 4th lockdown, officials warn

Daily caseload tops 5,755 with 400 patients in serious condition, Health Ministry says. Housing Minister Ze’ev Elkin says that unless the infection rate is curbed, lockdown could be imminent.  

By  Maytal Yasur Beit-Or , Assaf Golan and Mati Tuchfeld, IH

Persistent morbidity rate means Israel staring at 4th lockdown, officials warn

The Delta variant is racing nationwide forcing the government to impose restrictions on public life | File photo: Oren Ben Hakoon

Some 5,755 new cases of the novel coronavirus were reported in Israel over the past day, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.

Israel has recorded 914,403 coronavirus cases, including 6,580 deaths, since the onset of the global pandemic in March 2020.

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August 11, 2021 | 2:43 pm | Comments »

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Harvard Epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff on Vaccine Passports, the Delta Variant, and the COVID ‘Public Health Fiasco’  


In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Kulldorff for a deep dive on COVID-19 immunity, vaccines, the Delta variant, and why he believes the global COVID response has been the “biggest public health fiasco in history.”

Dr. Martin Kulldorff is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a biostatistician and epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He helped develop the CDC’s current system for monitoring potential vaccine risks, and he is also one of the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which argued for “focused protection” of the most vulnerable, instead of lockdowns.

August 11, 2021 | 11:33 am | Comments »

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COVID: 90% of patients treated with new Israeli drug discharged in 5 days  

The Phase II trial for an Israeli COVID drug saw some 29 out of 30 patients, moderate to serious, recover within days.

AUGUST 5, 2021 22:24

A PATIENT is administered Prof. Nadir Arber’s EXO-CD24 COVID-19 treatment. (photo credit: ICHILOV SPOKESPERSON'S OFFICE)

A PATIENT is administered Prof. Nadir Arber’s EXO-CD24 COVID-19 treatment.

Some 93% of 90 coronavirus serious patients treated in several Greek hospitals with a new drug developed by a team at Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Medical Center as part of the Phase II trial of the treatment were discharged in five days or fewer.

The Phase II trial confirmed the results of Phase I, which was conducted in Israel last winter and saw 29 out of 30 patients in moderate to serious condition recover within days.

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August 11, 2021 | 8:25 am | 5 Comments »

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Israel’s new government faces a crisis of legitimacy  

Israel’s new government is unlikely to address crucial issues. Here is what Bennett can do to improve things.

By Ken Abromowitz, INN

Israel’s new government, led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, faces a crisis of legitimacy on multiple levels:

1) In Israel’s parliamentary democracy, Bennett became Prime Minister with a 61-member coalition (the slimmest majority possible in the 120 seat parliament). There were only seven members of his Yamina party in the coalition, and no participants from Likud, Israel’s largest party. Some suspect that one or two seats were pinched by the Left during the long night of the last election.

2) Though Yamina voters support a right-wing agenda, Bennett betrayed them by creating a left-wing government.

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Job Openings Surpass 10 Million For First Time Ever As Americans Continue To Cash Unemployment Checks By Ben Zeisloft  

By Ben Zeisloft, DAILY WIRE

The United States economy has over 10 million job openings.

According to data from the Department of Labor, the number of positions available in the United States increased to 10.1 million as of the last business day in June — the highest number ever observed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In May, there were 9.2 million openings.

The total number of separations, however, also increased. According to the Department of Labor’s press release:

Total separations includes quits, layoffs and discharges, and other separations. Quits are generally voluntary separations initiated by the employee. Therefore, the quits rate can serve as a measure of workers’ willingness or ability to leave jobs. Layoffs and discharges are involuntary separations initiated by the employer. Other separations includes separations due to retirement, death, disability, and transfers to other locations of the same firm.
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Unvaccinated older Israelis, have a serious COVID rate six times higher than those vaccinated  

As government desperately tries to galvanize 1.1 million who are spurning vaccine, data shows that severe cases also far higher among younger people if they aren’t inoculated

Today, 1:05 pm  

Despite the Delta variant, vaccines are delivering high protection, and the rate of serious infections in Israel is six times higher among older people who fail to inoculate than others in the same age bracket.

Health Ministry data shows that among Israelis aged 60-plus, there are 16.6 people per 100,000 in serious condition. Among the unvaccinated the figure is 98.5. (There were 394 people in serious condition nationwide as of Tuesday morning, the ministry said.)

Israel is struggling with a major COVID-19 spike, and on Tuesday coronavirus czar Salman Zarka said the country was at a “critical point.”

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August 10, 2021 | 7:56 pm | 21 Comments »

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That Senate Infrastructure Bill Shreds Privacy in the Sanctuary of Your Own Car and Blows Up the Budget.  

SEE ALSO
Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Rewards States With More Immigrants: Report

Why Is the GOP Helping?

BY VICTORIA TAFT, PJ MEDIA    <

CIUDAD HIDALGO, MEXICO – OCTOBER 21: A migrant caravan walks into the interior of Mexico after crossing the Guatemalan border on October 21, 2018 near Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico The caravan of Central Americans plans to eventually reach the United States. U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to cancel the recent trade deal with Mexico and withhold aid to Central American countries if the caravan isn’t stopped before reaching the U.S. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)[/caption]

The U.S. Senate plans to take a vote on the infrastructure bill on Saturday, according to the best available reports for you late-to-the-party fact-checkers. The bill as it’s currently written is fiscally disastrous, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and removes what’s left of any vestige of privacy in your own private vehicle.
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August 10, 2021 | 3:53 pm | 8 Comments »

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Israel asking US to push Palestinians toward compromise on Sheikh Jarrah  

Jerusalem has asked Washington to convince families in high profile East Jerusalem eviction case to accept a deal that will allow them to stay as protected tenants

Palestinians and left-wing activists protest against the expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood Sheikh Jarrah, April 16, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

NEW YORK — Israel has asked the Biden administration to use its bully pulpit to encourage several Palestinian families facing Israeli eviction from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah to accept a compromise proposed by the Supreme Court that would allow them to stay put for the foreseeable future, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel on Monday.

“The deal allows the Palestinians to climb down [from their position], and we asked the Americans to encourage the families to do so before it’s too late,” the official said, confirming the request first reported by the Haaretz daily.

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August 10, 2021 | 2:59 pm | 3 Comments »

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Speaking of ‘science,’ which data show that humans, CO2, and fossil fuels cause global warming?  

By Jack Hellner, AM THINKER

Another day, another dire warning about global warming. The press and its taskmasters could essentially Xerox a copy of what they printed for the public in the Washington Post in 1922, or a UN report in 1989, or a UN report in 2019 for this report here:

U.N. climate report likely to deliver stark warnings on global warming

As always, journalists just print and repeat these ever-ending reports to scare the public into submission with no questions asked.

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August 10, 2021 | 11:17 am | 4 Comments »

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Illegal construction continues in Area C while the authorities play ping-pong  

T. Belman.  This makes me so upset that I want to spit blood.  And its been going on since forever.  The same for how we are not dealing with the Bedouin.

REGEVIM

We’ve often mentioned the “Order for Demolition of New Structures” – legislation from 2018 that was approved by the High Court in recent rulings. On paper, the legislation empowers the demolition of new, illegal structures in Judea and Samaria within 96 hours.

However, since the legislation was passed, the Civil Administration has rarely used the enforcement tool – despite the widespread problem of mass illegal construction.

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